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MIAMI -- A former clinic owner accused of providing performance-enhancing drugs to several Major
League Baseball players and a cousin of Alex Rodriguez who injected the star with steroids have
been charged in what prosecutors called a drug conspiracy, authorities said today.

Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Mia Ro said that Yuri Sucart was among nine
people arrested. Also arrested was former Biogenesis of America clinic owner Anthony Bosch, who was
charged today with conspiracy to distribute steroids, according to court records. The documents do
not specify whether the charges are directly related to the Major League Baseball scandal.

It was not immediately clear what Sucart had been charged with.

Sucart, 52, was banned from the Yankees clubhouse, charter flights, bus and other
team-related activities by Major League Baseball in 2009 after Rodriguez admitted he used steroids
while with Texas from 2000 to 2003, saying Sucart obtained and injected the drugs for him.

Court documents say that from October 2008 through December 2012, Bosch willfully conspired
to distribute the anabolic steroid testosterone.

Bosch surrendered this morning, and eight other people also have been arrested, including
Sucart, Ro said. Among the others charged were Carlos Javier Acevedo, 35, of Miami; Jorge Augustine
Velazquez, 43, of Miami; Christopher Benjamin Engroba, 25, of Miami; Lazaro Daniel Collazo, 50, of
Hialeah; and Juan Carlos Nuñez, 48, of Fort Lauderdale.

Collazo is a former pitching coach for the universities of Miami, Louisville and South
Florida who has also worked as a private instructor with numerous high-school, college and
professional pitchers. His University of Miami biography says he worked with Hall of Fame pitcher
Jim Palmer during his 1991 comeback attempt, seven years after Palmer's retirement.

A
Miami New Times report from January 2013, which sparked MLB's investigation, said
Rodriguez had bought human growth hormone and other substances from 2009 to 2012 from Bosch's
clinic, Biogenesis of America. The newspaper said it had obtained records detailing the purchases
by Rodriguez and other ballplayers.

Fourteen players associated with the Coral Gables clinic were disciplined last year by MLB,
including a seasonlong 2014 suspension imposed on Rodriguez.

MLB had sued Bosch and his clinic but withdrew the lawsuit in February. The lawsuit had
accused them of conspiring with players to violate their contracts by providing them with banned
substances.

Although the lawsuit sought unspecified damages, it also provided a way for MLB to subpoena
clinic records.

Rodriguez, who denied using banned substances while playing for the New York Yankees,
initially fought the suspension. He finally ended his fight with MLB in February, accepting the
suspension and withdrawing a pair of lawsuits against the MLB and the Major League Baseball Players
Association.

Rodriguez's suspension is the longest penalty in the sport's history related to
performance-enhancing drugs. He was the only player involved in the scandal to contest his
penalty.